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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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SALEM

A city ruled by King Melchizedek. When Abraham returned from a victorious battle against the King of Elam, Melchizedek, who was a priest as well as a king, gave his blessing to Abraham. In turn, Abraham offered tithes to the priest (Genesis 14:17-20). In this brief incident the Church finds a symbolic relationship between Melchizedek, the priest-king, and Christ, the priest-king of the New Testament.

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Saturday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time

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The Roman Martyrology includes these commemorations: —Blessed John Duns Scotus (1266-1308), a Scottish Franciscan priest and theologian who died in 1308. He was beatified in 1993 and the the founder of the Scotistic School in Theology, and until the time of the French Revolution his thought…

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